10 Nov 1796
(1796:America had been Independent only 20
years; John Adams replaces George Washington as President of U.S.
who lives only 2 years; Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais;
1st Independence Day celebration is held; U.S. State Department
issues 1st American passport; Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen
Moses Cleveland.)

Cornwall, , England
(1796:
Spain declares war on England; Catherine the Great dies; Poet
Rob't Burns dies; George III was King of England)

Died Apr 28 1874 (gravestone)
(Name misspelled Kame) (1874: Jesse James gang robs train at
Gads Hill, Missouri; King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is
Hawaii, is 1st king to visit U.S.; Benjamin Disraeli
replaces William Gladstone as English premier; Levi Strauss
markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz.; 1st
admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill
University of Canada 3-0; Queen Victoria still reigned in
England.)

Marriage:

15 Feb 1817

Saint Blazey, Cornwall,
England

WHY THIS
SITE?

"When I this little Record see,

I think how happy it would be

If
Pa and Ma should live to say

Our children
walk in wisdoms way.

And when the parting
stroke is come

And they and we are called
home.

May we all meet in heaven above

And
sing redeeming grace and love."

When nine-year-old
Mary A. Richards (1814 to 1873) of Jaffrey, New Hampshire
embroidered this little ditty on her "Sampler" it was just a
preface to her also embroidering her family record as below:

"Mr. Luther
A. Richards born sept. 26 1785/

Miss Mary Page born/June 8 1794/

Luther
Richards & Mary Page married July 5 1813/

Mary Adeline born Jan 1
1814/

Roderick Streat born June 22 1815/

Abijah born APril 10 Died
APril 18/1817/

Luther Abijah born APril 12 1818/

Sarah Ann born June
15/1820/

Amanda born August 7 1822/

Harriet born Oct 1 1824/

Huldah Hopkins
born April 13 1825/"

With this site,
I hope we can "embroider" the Butson family name in an equally
enduring way.

To begin....,
some background.
Early on, although mostly found in England,
curiously, the Butson name also connects with a very interesting Eyre's
(Ayer's) family name in the 1800's, in Ireland, County Galway....through
marriage, not once, but, twice: